A Sonic Journey Through the Universe | Felipe Sánchez Luna | TED

翻译人员: Lening Xu 校对人员: Yip Yan Yeung

The world is full of sound.

这世界，充满了声音。

(Synth sounds)

（合成声音）

It's all around us all the time.

每时每刻，环绕四周。

(Synth sounds with beats)

（带节拍的合成声音）

If it's carefully designed,

如果精心设计，

we can use it to tap directly into our feelings

我们可以用它来直面内心，

and evoke a deeper connection to ourselves and the world.

唤起与世界更深的联系。

(Synths continue)

（合成声音继续）

As a group of composers, sound designers,

作为作曲家、声音设计师、

creative technologists and musicologists,

创意技术专家和音乐学家，

my team and I combine all this knowledge to create sound experiences

我和我的团队将所有这些知识结合起来，

创造出传达故事和想法的声音体验。

that convey stories and ideas.

(Synth sounds continue)

（合成声音继续）

We use scientific data as musical scores,

我们使用科学数据作为乐谱，

translating complex information into a language we can easily understand.

将复杂信息翻译成可轻松理解的语言。

We work with field recordings,

我们使用现场录音，

compose linear and modal music,

创作线性和模态音乐，

and use technology to understand, control and generate melodies.

并使用科技理解、控制并生成旋律。

(Synths continue)

（合成声音继续）

We are merging art, music, technology and science

我们正在将艺术、音乐、技术和科学

into the field of sound scenography,

融入声音场景设计领域，

using the auditory sense

运用听觉

to foster an emotional understanding of our world.

来培养对我们世界的情感理解。

(Synth sounds continue)

（合成声音继续）

So let me take you on a sonic journey of music and code,

让我带你踏上音乐和代码的声音之旅，

where ones and zeros are mixed with notes and rhythms

这是 1 和 0 与音符和节奏的混响，

and poetry meets science.

是诗歌与科学碰撞。

What you are about to hear is a combination of recordings from nature

你即将听到的是来自大自然 和周围环境的录音、

and our surroundings,

data-and-AI-driven music

数据和人工智能驱动的音乐，

and a lot of human creativity.

以及许多人类创造力的结合。

So relax,

因此，放松一下，

and if you feel comfortable, close your eyes,

如果你感到舒服， 闭上眼睛，

take a deep breath,

深吸一口气，

and listen closely.

仔细聆听。

Allow yourself to feel.

让自己感受一下。

(Revolving soundscapes)

（旋转音景）

We begin in the water.

我们从水开始。

(Sounds of surf)

（冲浪的声音）

(Underwater sounds)

（水下的声音）

Here in the deep, we hear tiny creatures,

在深海中，

我们能听到微小生物， 不同的纹理，

different textures,

or even the contrast between the Atlantic ...

甚至对比大西洋……

(Underwater sounds continue)

（水下声音继续）

and the Pacific Ocean.

和太平洋。

(Quieter underwater sounds)

（更安静的水下声音）

We follow the sounds of seals

我们听着海豹的声音，

and bring the elusive song of the harbor porpoise

将海豚难以捉摸的歌声，

to the range of our human hearing.

带到了人类的听觉范围。

(Porpoise vocalizations and water sounds)

（海豚的叫声和水的声音）

The ocean is speaking to us.

海洋在对我们说话。

(Water sounds and synth music)

（水声和合成音乐）

Let’s move out of the water into dry land,

让我们离开水面，进入旱地，

and dig deep into the Earth.

深入地球内部。

(Harsh, booming sounds)

（刺耳的、洪亮的声音）

(Quieter, grumbling sounds)

（更安静的、隆隆的声音）

Countless small animals, like earthworms, grubs and ants,

无数小动物， 如蚯蚓、幼虫和蚂蚁，

they interact, they communicate

它们相互交流，

and work tirelessly to maintain a perfect ecosystem.

不知疲倦地努力维护完美的生态系统。

(Scratching and digging sounds)

（刮擦和挖掘的声音）

Through geophones and soil sensors,

通过地震检波器和土壤传感器，

we can capture these voices and hear the soil singing to us.

我们可以捕获这些声音， 听到土壤在给我们歌唱。

(Synth music and scratching sounds)

（合成器音乐和刺耳的声音）

But it’s our human creativity that can interpret, modulate, filter

但是，正是我们人类的创造力， 能够解释、调制、过滤所有这些录音，

and mix all these recordings with music,

并将其与音乐混合，

creating a tapestry of sound

创造出一张声音专辑，

that gives a voice to the complex world hidden under our feet.

为隐藏在我们脚下的复杂世界发声。

(Synth music)

（合成音乐）

From here, we take flight high into the sky.

我们从这里飞向高空。

(Booming and whooshing sounds)

（嗡嗡作响的声音）

Feel the lightness of traveling through air

感受空中旅行的轻盈，

while enjoying the mystical messages carried by birdsongs.

欣赏鸟鸣所传递的神秘信息。

(Synth music and bird vocalizations)

（合成音乐和小鸟发声）

Let's focus our attention on that hermit thrush,

让我们把注意力集中 在那只隐夜鸫上，

as it sings to us.

它在唱歌给我们听。

(Birdsong)

（鸟叫声）

Within that song is a message,

歌里有一条信息，

that if we slow it down, we can comprehend.

如果放慢速度， 我们就能理解。

(Synth music)

（合成器音乐）

Every bird finds his voice in this intricate orchestration.

每只鸟都能在这复杂的编排中 找到自己的声音。

And while they all play together in perfect harmony,

尽管它们都完美和谐地协同工作，

we need to find our place in this acoustic ecosystem.

但我们需要在这个声学生态中 找到自己的位置。

(Synth music and sounds of nature)

（合成音乐和自然之声）

Let’s keep moving up, into the sky ...

让我们继续向上，飞向天空……

(Synth music)

（合成音乐）

through the atmosphere ...

穿过大气层……

(Whooshing sound)

（呼啸声）

into the vast emptiness of space.

进入广袤无垠的太空。

(Synth vocals)

（合成器人声）

In this abstract place, where there is no sound,

在这个抽象的地方， 没有声音的地方，

we reach only to the power of music

我们只能利用音乐的力量，

to try to make sense

试着理解声音与时间之间的关系。

out of the relationship between sound and time.

(Low warbling and synth vocals)

（低沉的颤音和合成人声）

As the sound of a voice,

就像声音一样，

we travel to the center of a black hole

我们前往黑洞的中心，

and wonder what will happen to us in the presence of this cosmic force.

探寻这种宇宙力量存在时会发生什么。

(Layered synth vocals and music)

（分层合成人声和音乐）

We are being stretched,

我们被撕扯，

as our musical body just falls apart.

因为音乐刚刚分崩离析。

New and old musical concepts collide into a timeless sound mass,

新旧音乐概念 碰撞成永恒的音质，

leaving all sense of structure behind.

将所有结构感抛在脑后。

(Layered synth vocals and music)

（分层合成器人声和音乐）

We are surrounded by the past, the present and the future,

我们同时被过去、 现在和未来所包围，

all at the same time,

while information and matter lose all their meaning.

而信息和物质则失去了所有意义。

(Layered synth vocals and music)

（分层合成人声和音乐）

(Music lowers in volume)

（音乐音量降低）

It is here, in this emptiness,

正是在这里，在这片空虚中，

that we find ourselves traveling to the human imagination,

我们发现自己正在穿越 人类的想象力，

an infinitely magical place,

一个无比神奇的地方，

bound only by our creativity.

仅束缚于我们的创造力。

(Vocals, nature sounds and music)

（人声、自然声音和音乐）

(Shifting musical patterns)

（不断变化的音乐模式）

We hear artificial intelligence making music

我们听到人工智能在创作音乐，

and envision the potential of new collaborations.

设想新合作的潜力。

(Synth music and synth sounds of nature)

（合成音乐和自然声音）

Explosions of sounds and melodies

声音和旋律的爆炸

remind us of the importance of emotional communication,

提示我们情感交流的重要性，

while simultaneously giving us an idea of the creative process

同时让我们了解到技术 正在增强创作过程。

being enhanced by technology.

(Synth music and synth sounds of nature)

（合成音乐和自然声音）

As we return from our journey

当我们从旅途中回来，

and rejoin one another in this room,

并在这个房间里重聚一堂时，

let us embrace the force of human imagination

让我们拥抱人类想象的力量，

and use sound to connect deeper to ourselves and to others.

用声音与自己和他人 建立更深的联系。

Let us open ourselves

让我们敞开心扉，

to the transformative power of sound

拥抱声音的变革力量，

and its contribution to a new emotional understanding of our world.

籍由这种贡献，让我们对 这个世界产生新的情感理解。

(Synth music ends)

（合成音乐结束）

Thank you.

谢谢。

(Cheers and applause)

（欢呼和掌声）